Miguel da Paz, King of Portugal, Castile and Aragon

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Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal


The Birth of the Prince of Peace

On the 23rd of August 1498, a boy was born in Portugal, he is the son of Isabella of Aragon and King Manuel I of Portugal, the King and Queen of Portugal were both happy, he is sworn as the heir of the two crowns of Aragon and Castile, however the happiness of the country was cut short at the death of Isabella of Aragon on October due to the complications of pregnancy.

On the latter part of 1500, the newlywed and heavily pregnant Anne of Brittany visits Spain, she said that her daughter, Claude will be the one who will marry the future King of Spain, this marriage will tie France to the new united Iberia, the dowry for her would be the French claims to the Kingdom of Naples and Aragon which was the claims to Naples of Valois-Anjou and the claims of Yolanda of Aragon, on Lisbon, Anne of Brittany gave birth to the dauphin named Charles, the heir to Brittany and Dauphin of Viennois as the heir to France on November 2 1500 on Lisbon and she was able to return with the dauphin.

The dowry for Claude is the claims to Naples and the claims to Aragon of the Valois, due to this there was no war between Spain and France, the future marriage would mean that the future United Kingdom of Iberia has a claim to Navarre because she herself has claims to Navarre.

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Young Claude of France, the daughter of Anne, Duchess of Brittany, Queen of France..future wife of Miguel da Paz..

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Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal

The remarriage of Manuel and the other sisters of Isabella of Aragon

Prince Miguel was sworn as the heir of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille and the territories of Naples and Sicily on 1500 just after Anne of Brittany left the court of Ferdinand and Isabella on the December of 1500, just after that Manuel I of Portugal would remarry to Maria of Portugal on December 1500 which would produce eight further surviving children who infancy.

John, duke of Coimbra 6 June 6 1502

Infanta Isabella October 24 1503

Infanta Beatrice December 31 1504

Infante Louis, Duke of Beja March 3 1506

Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda June 5 1507

King Henry 31 January 31 1512

Infanta Maria February 3 1513

Infante Edward, Duke of Guimarães 7 October 1515

Prince Miguel had good relations with the new Queen of Portugal and treater her as his second mother.

Joanna of Castile married Philip of Austria, the son of Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor and Mary of Burgundy, her former sister in law remarried to Christian of Denmark on 1501.

For Joanna of Castile, she had five children:

Eleanor November 15 1498

Charles February 24 1500

Isabella July 18 1501

Ferdinand March 10 1503

Mary September 18 1505

Catherine January 14 1507

Catherine of Aragon’s first husband, Arthur, Prince of Wales dies on 1503 due to tuberculosis and she is said to have been living as a prisoner of her former father in law, who wanted to marry her and she marries her former brother in law, Henry on 1507.

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Emmanuel Leconte and Gabriella Wright as Miguel I of Spain and Queen Claudia of Spain in the Series: Avis, a French, Spanish and English coproduction.

Claudia and Miguel
Another daughter of Anne of Brittany was born on 1510, her name was Renee and since the marriage between Miguel and Claude is nearing, the two were worried about the possible succession of the Duchy of Brittany, at the same time, Isabella I of Castile died as well causing Miguel, Prince of Asturias to be the King of Castille as Miguel I.

On 1512, the proxy marriage between Claude of France and Miguel da Paz actually happened and it was an attendant of Miguel that came to France that did it for her and aside from that he was told that it has been decided that Charles, the Dauphin of Viennois and Duke of Brittany would marry Isabella of Portugal, the daughter of Manuel I of Portugal and Maria of Aragon.

the pope have given dispensation to the two marriages since the two are related via John II of Aragon.

The man who stood in was a part of the retinue of Claude of France to Spain as she is no longer a French Princess but a Castillan Queen and a part of her retinue was Anne Boleyn and the man that would fetch Isabella of Portugal to her new husband, Miguel I of Castile, on Valladolid the two would meet and marry and Isabella of Portugal was sent to France with the retinue of all of the retinue it was Anne Boleyn that remained in her court.

Claude of France is crowned as Queen Claudia, the wife of Miguel I of Castille on the same day that they were married.

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Coat of Arms of Ferdinand of Aragon

The foreign colonies and expansion
The Kingdom of Castille had colonies before the inheritance of the Kingdom by Miguel da Paz, during the reign of Queen Isabella, the West Indies have been discovered by Christopher Columbus and colonized, the Kingdom of Portugal has holdings in the East indies, in Nusa Tengarra, Java, Goa, Diu and Malacca - the Kingdoms of Wehali, Malacca and Congo have already became tributaries of Portugal during the reign of Manuel I, apparently, the King of Portugal has won victories against the Malays and the Indians.

The death of Ferdinand of Aragon
On 1515, the old King of Aragon, Ferdinand of Aragon have breath his last breath, the Kingdom of Aragon is inherited by King Miguel of Castile, King Miguel and his wife, Claudia have been crowned as queen of Aragon in Barcelona and Miguel have been given a role in the administration of the Kingdom of Portugal by his father but his father would still be the reigning ruler until he dies.

The Three Kingdoms of Portugal, Aragon and Castile are already united and he is the one ruling the Kingdoms of Portugal, Castile and Aragon but the merger would mean that he would rule a powerful realm.

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Anne Boleyn, Mistress of Miguel I of Spain

The children of Claudia and Miguel and the liaison with Anne Boleyn
Queen Claudia gave birth to a son on 1516 he is called as Enrique who was made the Prince of Asturias and Prince of Girona..on the following month Miguel was in an affair with the maid of Queen Claudia, Anne Boleyn…

Queen Claudia is pregnant again on 1517 and gave birth to a daughter named Catalina and during that time, she found out that Anne Boleyn became the mistress of Miguel, Anne Boleyn would play a big role in the court of Miguel of Aragon and Castile.

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Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal


The Birth of the Prince of Peace

On the 23rd of August 1498, a boy was born in Portugal, he is the son of Isabella of Aragon and King Manuel I of Portugal, the King and Queen of Portugal were both happy, he is sworn as the heir of the two crowns of Aragon and Castile, however the happiness of the country was cut short at the death of Isabella of Aragon on October due to the complications of pregnancy.

On the latter part of 1500, the newlywed and heavily pregnant Anne of Brittany visits Spain, she said that her daughter, Claude will be the one who will marry the future King of Spain, this marriage will tie France to the new united Iberia, the dowry for her would be the French claims to the Kingdom of Naples and Aragon which was the claims to Naples of Valois-Anjou and the claims of Yolanda of Aragon, on Lisbon, Anne of Brittany gave birth to the dauphin named Charles, the heir to Brittany and Dauphin of Viennois as the heir to France on November 2 1500 on Lisbon and she was able to return with the dauphin.

The dowry for Claude is the claims to Naples and the claims to Aragon of the Valois, due to this there was no war between Spain and France, the future marriage would mean that the future United Kingdom of Iberia has a claim to Navarre because she herself has claims to Navarre.

Why would France give up its claims to Naples in exchange for a marriage alliance with Portugal? Why would Manuel *want* those claims to Naples for his son, when his son is going to inherit Ferdinand's claims to Naples anyway? Why would this POD result in a son for Louis XII? (Note that said son would appear to have to have been conceived *before* Miguel's OTL death). Why is a heavily pregnant queen of France visiting Spain? Why is she making marriage promises without reference to her husband?
 
Why would France give up its claims to Naples in exchange for a marriage alliance with Portugal? Why would Manuel *want* those claims to Naples for his son, when his son is going to inherit Ferdinand's claims to Naples anyway? Why would this POD result in a son for Louis XII? (Note that said son would appear to have to have been conceived *before* Miguel's OTL death). Why is a heavily pregnant queen of France visiting Spain? Why is she making marriage promises without reference to her husband?

Because Anne of Brittany wanted her daughter married to a Spanish King so that Brittany would split from France, that is a strategy she used, she used that in OTL in her daughter, Claude but that failed in OTL, in this TL it would fail as well but this will result in a double marriage.
 
Because Anne of Brittany wanted her daughter married to a Spanish King so that Brittany would split from France, that is a strategy she used, she used that in OTL in her daughter, Claude but that failed in OTL, in this TL it would fail as well but this will result in a double marriage.

To repeat the questions you didn't answer: Why would France give up its claims to Naples in exchange for a marriage alliance with Portugal? Why would Manuel *want* those claims to Naples for his son, when his son is going to inherit Ferdinand's claims to Naples anyway? Why would this POD result in a son for Louis XII? (Note that said son would appear to have to have been conceived *before* Miguel's OTL death). Why is a heavily pregnant queen of France visiting Spain?
 
To repeat the questions you didn't answer: Why would France give up its claims to Naples in exchange for a marriage alliance with Portugal? Why would Manuel *want* those claims to Naples for his son, when his son is going to inherit Ferdinand's claims to Naples anyway? Why would this POD result in a son for Louis XII? (Note that said son would appear to have to have been conceived *before* Miguel's OTL death). Why is a heavily pregnant queen of France visiting Spain?

It was her own idea and she escaped from her court while she was pregnant, the real POD is the conception of a son and she pledged her daughter to the King of Spain in order to split Brittany from France.. I can't reveal more because it is a spoiler...
 
It was her own idea and she escaped from her court while she was pregnant, the real POD is the conception of a son and she pledged her daughter to the King of Spain in order to split Brittany from France.. I can't reveal more because it is a spoiler...

Okay. But she has absolutely no right to promise French claims to Naples. The only credible thing she offers is the inheritance to Brittany, and that's vitiated by the birth of a son. (Also, how would the birth of a dauphin cause a completely different baby to survive?)

I don't quite get what either France (and Louis XII surely has to agree to his children's marriages, whatever his wife may want) or Portugal (which is not getting the Breton inheritance) gets out of such a marriage. Spain apparently gets the French claims to Naples, but it's utterly unrealistic that Louis would give those up for a marriage that doesn't give him anything.

Why does the TL even need this? Surely an Iberian Union in 1521 and a Habsburg dynasty restricted to Germany and the Low Countries is enough to make for an interesting timeline on its own?

I'm also confused as to whether your POD changes the course of the OTL Italian Wars, which go unmentioned. Do Louis and Ferdinand still partition Naples between them? Do they still fall out and go to war, with Ferdinand seizing the kingdom? Do we still have the League of Cambrai, and the Holy League, and all that?

If so, doesn't that make it much less likely that this marriage alliance is actually put into effect? If not, isn't that going to introduce some huge changes you should be talking about?
 
Okay. But she has absolutely no right to promise French claims to Naples. The only credible thing she offers is the inheritance to Brittany, and that's vitiated by the birth of a son. (Also, how would the birth of a dauphin cause a completely different baby to survive?)

I don't quite get what either France (and Louis XII surely has to agree to his children's marriages, whatever his wife may want) or Portugal (which is not getting the Breton inheritance) gets out of such a marriage. Spain apparently gets the French claims to Naples, but it's utterly unrealistic that Louis would give those up for a marriage that doesn't give him anything.

Why does the TL even need this? Surely an Iberian Union in 1521 and a Habsburg dynasty restricted to Germany and the Low Countries is enough to make for an interesting timeline on its own?

I'm also confused as to whether your POD changes the course of the OTL Italian Wars, which go unmentioned. Do Louis and Ferdinand still partition Naples between them? Do they still fall out and go to war, with Ferdinand seizing the kingdom? Do we still have the League of Cambrai, and the Holy League, and all that?

If so, doesn't that make it much less likely that this marriage alliance is actually put into effect? If not, isn't that going to introduce some huge changes you should be talking about?

The marriage between Claude of France is just like Ferdinand's marriage with Germaine de Foix.
 
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